CHARLES WILLIAM DENNY
Born: 1892, Ipswich.
Died: 22nd August 1918; age 26; died of wounds – had only just been awarded the Military Medal. Served 8 years in the Essex Regiment.
Residence: 27, Bramford Road, Ipswich.
Enlistment Location: Warley, Essex.
Date of Entry Therein: 25th April 1915 – Balkans.
Rank: Sergeant; Service Number: 9520.
Regiment: Essex Regiment, 9th Battalion.
Medals Awarded: Victory, British War & 1915 Star + Military Medal.
Grave Reference:
G.16.
Somme,
France.
Relatives Notified & Address: Son of Rose Hill (formerly Denny), of Ipswich & the late Charles Denny; husband of Emily Parker (formerly Denny), of 39, Rendlesham Road, Ipswich.
CENSUS
1901 90, Finchley Road, Ipswich.
Charles was 7 years old and living with his parents & siblings.
Charles William Denny, 35, a Stone & Mable Mason, born Ipswich.
Rose Ann Denny (nee Nunn), 32, born Gosbeck, Suffolk.
Rose Annie M. Denny, 9, born Ipswich.
Albert Denny, 5, born Ipswich.
William Dennis Denny, under 1 month, born Ipswich.
1 Monthly Nurse.
Charles’s father, Charles William Denny, died on the 15th March 1908, at 60, Finchley Road, Ipswich.
On the 29th November 1915, at St. Mary’s Church, South Banbury, Oxfordshire, 23 year old Charles, a soldier of St. Michael’s, Ipswich, married 21 year old Emily Prince, born June 1896, Banbury, Oxfordshire – daughter of Thomas Prince, a general tinsmith, and Sarah Prince (nee Cave), of 23, Lower Cheswell Street, Banbury.
Soldiers’ Effects to Emily Parker – widow.
Charles is also remembered on the war memorial at St Mary at Stoke Church, Ipswich.
Essex Regiment, 9th Battalion:
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